Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
TIMOTHY KELLERYou are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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